Speaker to Animals wrote: ↑Sun Aug 18, 2019 11:46 am
If you really want to get an idea of where the country stands, you should study places like Asheville, Austin, etc. Small ultra-liberal towns surrounded by right wing (and largely rural) county.
What I notice is people living in certain areas (and here I am not talking about total jackasses living in foreign nations who have no fucking clue what they are talking about, but actual Americans) whose main grasp of what is going on outside either the red or blue camp has to come from the Internet and media.
If you live in Chicago, even if you consider yourself something like a conservative or whatever, your contact with the what is going on in actual red territory is fairly limited to family and friends who moved to those locations and report back to you. It's just hard to figure out what is happening through somebody else's narrative of what they are seeing.
Likewise, if you live in rural Tennessee, it might be a little difficult to get a grasp on what the American left is actually into. You might read those bogus articles about how AOC is actually unpopular amongst liberals (she's not) and you get incorrect impressions about them.
Step one is fully admitting to yourself and others that the media lies to you all the time. Their job is to lie to you and manipulate you. So whatever information you get from those sources is suspect from the start.
A person who lives in one of these weird areas where you have a small ultra-weird liberal small city surrounded by the most red neck countryside imaginable gets to see shit and interact with people that you do not. Something different happens when these people come into contact and people get a better grasp of what's going down.
There's not so much violence here. At least not yet.
And to people in foreign countries who talk a lot of shit because they
think they understand what is going on in America because they watch television: dude, just settle down for fuck sake. You don't know what you are talking about. I wouldn't talk shit about what the average faggot in Canada believes. Think about how stupid you sound right now.